a single white fower. Flower longer than the bract, cylindrical, 
curved, soon withering. Calya of three oblong, scarious, obtuse, 
erect sepals. Corolla of three linear-spathulate petals, with two 
scales within at the base. Stamens six, rather longer than the 
petals. Ovary almost, if not quite, superior. Sfy/e filiform, 
longer than the stamen. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—wat. size. 2. Petal. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
